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Tiny Logic Circuits as Basis Of Nanometer-Scale Robotics And Processors

Circuits that can perform logic operations at the push of a button are a dime-a-dozen these days, but a breakthrough by researchers in the USA has meant they can be smaller and simpler than ever before.

5 Aug 2010

Safe Work Australia Releases Reports On Engineered Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment Tool

Safe Work Australia Chair, Mr Tom Phillips AM, today announced the release of two research reports on engineered nanomaterials and a nanotechnology risk assessment tool. Safe Work Australia commissioned the Royal Mel...

5 Aug 2010

Junior Researchers Awarded Prestigious Starting Grants By The European Research Council

Two junior researchers at LMU Munich have been awarded prestigious Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Dieter Braun and Professor Philip Tinnefeld, both members of the Faculty of Physics, wi...

5 Aug 2010

New High Resolution Technique to Image Microwave Magnetic Fields

Using clouds of ultracold atoms MPQ-LMU team of scientists makes microwave fields visible.

5 Aug 2010

Oxford Instruments and ECS Collaborate to Build New Nanowire Biosensor

Oxford Instruments and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, are delighted to announce that they have just signed a research-based collaboration agreement. Oxford Inst...

From Oxford Instruments plc 5 Aug 2010

XsunX Announces Favorable Study Results of CIGSolar Technology

XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX), the developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, announced today the favorable results from a study done by IBIS Associ...

5 Aug 2010

Advanced 28nm Chip Technology Development to be Discussed at GTC 2010

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the lineup of keynote speakers for GTC 2010, the company’s inaugural Global Technology Conference.

From GlobalFoundries 5 Aug 2010

Synopsys Inks Deal for PHY IP Development Targeting 28-nm Technologies

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a leading provider of advanced semiconductor technology and manufacturing services, today announced an agreement to develop the Synopsys DesignWare® SuperSpeed USB (3.0), USB 2.0, HDMI 1.4 Tx and Rx, DDR3/2, PCI Express® 2.0 and 1.1, SATA 1.5/3 Gbps and 6 Gbps, and XAUI PHY IP for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 28-nanometer (nm) "Gate First" High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) process technologies.

From Synopsys, Inc. 5 Aug 2010

ASU to Receive Grant for Development of New Lasers, Infrared Photodetectors

A team of Arizona State University researchers will get support from the U.S. Department of Defense to aid development of the next generations of lasers and infrared photodetectors.

From Arizona State University 5 Aug 2010

Dr. Wang Receives NSF Grant for Nano-Based Bone Regeneration Research

Every year nearly 6.2 million bone fractures occur in the United States as a result of trauma and disease. Current standards for bone repair can lead to rapid bone fusion but with limited mechanical strength often due to...

5 Aug 2010

United Microelectronics Qualifies Silvaco's Process Design Kit

Silvaco, Inc., a leading provider of TCAD and EDA software, today announced that United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a leading global semiconductor foundry, has completed qualifying Silvaco's Process Design Kit (PDK) for UMC's 0.35um CDMOS 3.3V 5V 12V 18V 30V 40V multi-operation voltage process.

5 Aug 2010

New Metamaterials for Optical Applications

Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in using new "metamaterials" for radical advances in optical technologies, including ultra-powerful microscopes and computers and a possible invisibility cloak.

5 Aug 2010

Harvard Physicists Achieve Milestone in Quantum Computing

A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials. The work marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as the first exp...

5 Aug 2010

Advancement in New Branch of Nano-Optics, Plasmonics

Surface plasmons are quanta of collective oscillations of free electrons at metal-insulator interface, usually excited by photons. Since it was first proposed in 1950s by Ritchie, new interests have been aroused due to r...

5 Aug 2010

New Microscopy Technique to View Oxide Interfaces in Atomic Resolution

Thin layers of oxide materials and their interfaces have been observed in atomic resolution during growth for the first time by researchers at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, providing new insight into the complicated link between their structure and properties.

5 Aug 2010